CAA/NATS  RUNWAY INCURSION STEERING GROUP (RISG)

SRG – AVIATION HOUSE – 12 SEPTEMBER 2008

UKFSC CHIEF EXEC SUMMARY

 

-           The Agenda for the RISG.

 

-           The TORs for the RISG are currently under review, but the objective of the SG is to ensure co-ordination across a series of specialist working groups dealing with specific aspects of runway incursions. The groups (WG) are Technologies, Publicity, Data Analysis, Aerodrome Ops and Operations.

 

-           As part of the RISG effort to publicise runway incursion information, the use of the UKFSC website and the FOCUS Magazine for posters and articles was offered.

 

-           The imminent introduction of ATSOCAS in March 2009 requires as wide as publicity as possible. The dedicated ATSOCAS CD has been pushed out to the commercial organisations and will shortly be distributed to the private pilot community.  The link to the ASI ATSOCAS programme has been placed on the UKFSC website.

 

-           The Technologies WG was tasked to act as the co-ordinator of information and outcomes from various runway incursion technology trials underway in the UK and US.

 

-           Concerns expressed by the RISG about the withdrawal of funding to publicise runway incursion issues across the pilot and ATM community. The need to target new pilots through training was seen as equally important as those already established in the airlines.

 

-           The plethora of runway incursion groupings in Europe and beyond, the lack of co-ordination and duplication of effort between them was highlighted. It was suggested that Eurocontrol should be approached to act as the lead co-ordinator of information for Europe.

 

-           The Chair of the Data Analysis Working Group briefed the findings from the 2007 analysis of runway incursions. Click for the Summary of the Data. There have been 909 events since 2002 in the UK, with 141 so far in 2008. The definition of incursions has changed to be more thorough which has influenced the statistics.

 

-           The value of identifying incursion hotspots and then gathering a team to consider them was advocated. The team should consist of pilots (both regular users and infrequent visitors), ATC and a ramp and taxi chart producer to get a holistic approach and solution.

 

-           The meeting concluded with a review of technology and results from ongoing trials aimed at addressing runway incursions. A number of methods to indicate a taxiway was approaching a runway are being investigated. Examples include a rumble strip at Southampton; a radio transmission system at Manchester; a variation of holding point arrangements; transponders on airside vehicles at Heathrow; revised taxiway paint schemes; flashing papis at Dallas and an illuminated waterjet warning system.

 

 

 

Rich Jones

Chief Exec

UKFSC    

 

2 Oct 2008